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Colorado State University Forecasters Predict Above-Average 2010 Hurricane Season

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The Colorado State University forecast team predicts an above-average 2010 Atlantic basin hurricane season based on the premise that El Niño conditions will dissipate by this summer and that anomalously warm tropical Atlantic sea surface temperatures will persist. Complete 2010 forecast (7 April). Tags: Brief.

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Satellite and GPS Measurements Show Ice Loss from Greenland Ice Sheet Spreading to Northwest Coast

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The research indicates the ice-loss acceleration began moving up the northwest coast of Greenland staring in late 2005. inches, from October 2005 to August 2009. Courtesy John Wahr, University of Colorado. Tags: Brief. The Greenland Ice Sheet. It holds about 20% of the world’s ice, the equivalent of about 6.4

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Study Finds Stratospheric Water Vapor Is An Important Driver of Decadal Global Surface Climate Change

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The researchers used data from the HALogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE) that flew on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) from late 1991 through November 2005, with coverage from the troposphere to the stratosphere overs 65°S to 65 °N. Tags: Climate Change Climate models. Science Express doi: 10.1126/science.1182488.

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Rentech Takes 25% Stake in Biomass Gasification Company

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To facilitate the development process, ClearFuels plans first to install a demonstration-scale biomass gasifier at Rentech’s Product Demonstration Unit (PDU) in Commerce City, Colorado to produce syngas from bagasse, virgin wood waste and other cellulosic feedstocks. Tags: Biomass Biomass-to-Liquids (BTL) Fuels Gasification.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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After Copenhagen, countries would then concentrate on “ two processes ”, now colloquially referred to as “two steps” in 2010. as compared to 1990 emissions, to be achieved between 2008 and 2012.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

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Today, EVs are making a comeback, and Paine’s chronicling the EV’s resurrection in his follow-up film, The Revenge of the Electric Car, set to jolt theaters in spring 2010. I also have a gas-guzzler for when I want to go up to San Francisco or drive up to Colorado. For the big car companies, it’s probably going to be 2010, 2011.

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